Kay Lorraine sings the title song, accompanied by a lot of violins and accordions in this soundie.
Soundies were short films, usually about three minutes in length, meant to be seen on a machine called the Mills Panoram. These devices were video jukeboxes, and were typically found in bars, diners, night clubs, and similar places. A dime got you a song chosen form a strict playlist of ten on the Panoram. From 1940 through 1946, Mills and a few competitors turned out more than two thousand of these; some notable screen presences got their starts in the soundies, including Nat 'King' Cole and Doris Day. Here, in one of the few I've seen that didn't come from Mills, there's Frank Wilcox, whose screen career began in 1936 and by the time he retired in the late 1960s, had appeared in more than three hundred movies and TV shows -- usually uncredited.
Soundies were short films, usually about three minutes in length, meant to be seen on a machine called the Mills Panoram. These devices were video jukeboxes, and were typically found in bars, diners, night clubs, and similar places. A dime got you a song chosen form a strict playlist of ten on the Panoram. From 1940 through 1946, Mills and a few competitors turned out more than two thousand of these; some notable screen presences got their starts in the soundies, including Nat 'King' Cole and Doris Day. Here, in one of the few I've seen that didn't come from Mills, there's Frank Wilcox, whose screen career began in 1936 and by the time he retired in the late 1960s, had appeared in more than three hundred movies and TV shows -- usually uncredited.
